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CONTENTS 

Chapter  I.  Introductory  Remarks. 

Chapter  II.  Stage,  How  to  Make,  etc.  In  drawing-rooms 
or  parlors,  with  sliding  or  hinged  doors.  In  a  single  large 
room.  The  Curtain;  how  to  attach  it,  and  raise  it,  etc. 

Chapter  III.  Arrangement  of  Scenery.  How  to  hang  it. 
Drapery,  tormentors,  wings,  borders,  drops. 

Chapter  IY.  Box  Scenes.  Center  door  pieces,  plain  wings, 
door  wings,  return  pieces,  etc. 

Chapter  Y.  How  to  Light  the  Stage.  Oil,  gas  and  electric 
tight.  Footlights,  Sidelights,  Reflectors.  How  to  darken  the 
stage,  etc. 

Chapter  YI.  Stage  Effects.  Wind,  Rain,  Thunder,  Break 
mg  Glass,  Falling  Buildings,  Snow,  Water,  Waves,  Cascades 
Passing  Trains,  Lightning,  Chimes,  Sound  of  Horses *  Hoofs, 
Shots. 

Chapter  VII.  Scene  Painting. 

Chapter  VIII.  A  Word  to  the  Property  Mam. 

Chapter  IX.  To  the  Stage  Manager. 

Chapter  X.  The  Business  Manager. 

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HOW  MANDY  GOT  THE 


VOTE 


A  MONOLOGUE 


By 

MARY  MONCURE  PARKER 


Copyright,  1910,  by  The  Dramatic  Publishing  Company 


CHICAGO 

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HOW  MANDY  GOT  THE  VOTE. 


You  see  Liza  Johnsing,  ’twas  this  a  way — wait  a  minute. 
I  gwine  to  laugh.  Tehee !  Whopee !  Honey !  I  was 
jest  a  thinkin’  of  Mose’s  face.  Tehee !  Yes,  yes,  Tm 
gwine  to  tell  you — quit  gittin’  so  rambunctious.  I'm 
gwine  to  tell  you  in  a  minute,  when  I  gets  myself  compose 
— Tehee !  You  see  the  lady  what  Matildy  wuks  fur  was 
gwine  to  entertain  some  of  them  suffragistes,  you  know 
what  I  mean,  them  women  what  thinks  women  ought  to 
vote.  Tiie  funny  thing  was  dat  me  an’  Mose  had  been 
discoursuatin’  on  dat  very  subjee’  jes’  dat  mawnin’.  Mose 
kin  throw  mo’  knowledge  out  of  his  pussonnality  in  ten 
^minutes  settin’  roun’  a  base  burner  stove  dan  any  ten  men 
-kin  dissorb  in  a  lifetime. 

“Women  vote,”  says  Mose.  “Why  women  ain’t  got  no 
right  to  vote,”  Mose  says,  smokin’  an’  expecturatin’  in 
:  the  stove.  “Dey  got  ’nuff  to  do  stayin’  home  lookin’  after 
.  dey  houses. 

^  “Woman’s  speer  am  washin’  an’  ironin’  an’  fakin’  keer  of 
the  offspring’s,  ’thout  putterin’  roun’  whar  men  b’longs. 
Women  wouldn’t  know  how  to  run  de  gov’munt  nohow. 
They’d  jes’  stan’  ’round’  de  polls  an’  talk  ’bout  dey  hats 
an’  dresses!”  Now,  Liza  Johnsing,  I’d  be  libely  to  talk 
’bout  dis  ole  black  dress  of  mine,  ain’t  had  a  new  one  fur 
free  years,  an’  as  fur  discussin’  dis  heah  thing  on  mah 
<  head  Mose  calls  a  hat,  well  the  feathers  on  it  looks  lak  a 
pullet  what  had  been  out  in  the  rain  fur  a  week. 

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“Why,  mos’  women  don’t  know  what  polls  is,”  said  Mose 
contemputuatiously. 

“Now  your’e  gitten’  a  little  too  abusin’,  Mose  Brown,” 
says  I.  “Ev’body  knows  what  a  pole  am.  Dar’s  clothes 
poles  an’  winder  poles  an’  de’  Norf  Pole.”  Then  Mose 
busted  out  laffin’  lak  he  gwine  to  bust  his  sides.  “I  tole 
you  dat  you  didn’t  have  no  idee  ’bout  polls,”  says  Mose, 
“polls  is  places  whar  men  goes  to  vote.” 

“I  don’  know  nothin’  ’bout  them  pollin’  places,”  I  says, 
“spec  dey’s  saloons  ef  de  men  goes  dar.  But  I  knows 
’bout  de  Norf  Pole,  Mose  Brown,  an’  ef  a  woman  had  gone 
dar  da  wouldn’t  been  none  of  dese  yeah  disputations  goin’ 
on.  She’d  a  brung  it  back 'fur  proof,  an’  dat  would  a 
settled  it.” 

“Look  a  heah,  woman,”  Mose  say,  “you  ain’t  got  no 
bettah  idee  ’bout  de  Norf  Pole  dan  you  has  ’bout  pollin’ 
places.  Don’  you  know  dat  de  Norf  Pole  runs  clar  froo 
de  Earth  an’  sticks  out  at  each  end?  How  you  gwine  to 
pull  it  out?” 

Well  dat  kin’  of  floored  me,  Liza,  kase  I  nevah  knowed 
befo’  dat  de  Pole  did  run  clar  froo  de  earth.  Course  I 
might  a  knowed,  kase  dat’s  what  keeps  de  earth  togedder, 
what  it  turns  on,  course. 

“Sides,”  says  Mose,  continuin’  (an’  Mose’s  conversation 
is  one  long  continuation  when  he  gits  started,  lie  hoi’s 
on  lak  a  dog  to  a  bone,  nevah  do  want  to  let  go,)  “’sides 
woman,  don’  you  know  de  Bible  say  woman  am  de  weaker 
vessel?  Didn’t  de  Lawd  make  Eve  outen  a  rib  of  Adam 
fur  to  show  she  was  in  subjugations  to  him?” 

Liza,  I’m  so  sick  of  dat  rib  story  de  men’s  is  alius 
bringin’  up,  I  clar  I  suttinly  am,  an’  I  fires  up  an’  says, 
“Go  on,  man,  I  don’t  take  it  dat  a  way  and  neveh  did. 
The  Lawd  kep’  makin’  an’  improvin’  an’  improvin’  an’ 


HOW  MANDY  GOT  THE  VOTE 


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consequentious  Eve  bein’  made  after  Adam  shows  she  was 
a  improvement  on  him.” 

Well,  Liza,  to  get  to  my  story — you  see  I  went  ovah 
to  he’p  Matildy,  kase  the  lady  what  she  wuks  fur  promised 
me  a  dollah  an’  a  half  fur  the  afternoon,  an’  I  tended  do’ 
when  the  women  come  in.  Dere  was  a  lot  of  these  heah 
little  foldin’  cheers  an’  the  women  set  roun’  lak  in  a 
church,  an’  one  woman  talked,  well,  dey  was  all  talkin’ 
some  of  de  time,  but  one  of  em  did  de  mos’  talkin’.  I 
can’t  member  all  she  said  (I  was  in  de  hall  mos’  of  de 
time  an’  I  couldn’t  hep  bearin’  some.).  She  said  de 
women  was  clawin’  an’  tearin’  fur  dey  rights  in,  let’s 
see,  whar  was  de  place  ?  Hit  sounded  som’thin  lak  Engle¬ 
wood,  but  seem  lak  twan’t  dat  needer,  kase  I  does  washin, 
dere  ev’y  Monday  an’  I  suttinly  would  a  heard  ’bout  sech 
goin’s  on.  Well,  Liza,  she  say  anyhow  dat  dey  was  clawin’ 
somewhar  an’  dey  ought  to  get  up  an’  claw  an’  tear  ovah 
heah.  She  said,  too,  Liza  dat  women  was  classed  wiv 
children  an’  ijits.  I  clar  foali  gracious,  Liza  Johnsing, 
some  of  dem  acts  jes  lak  ijits,  sometimes  fur  sho.  An’ 
she  tole  ’em,  too’  dat  women  had  either  ought  to  be  sup- 
poted  by  the  men  or  else  they’d  ought  to  vote,  an’  I  come 
neah  bustin’  out  laffin’  when  I  thought  of  Mose  suppotin’ 
me.  Mose  ain’t  done  a  lick  of  wuk  fur  ten  yeahs.  Says 
his  side’s  too  weak.  You’d  think  he  was  Adam  wid  one 
rib  gone.  Well,  Liza,  after  we’d  give  them  suffragistes 
some  tea  an’  wafers,  I  s’pose  them  brainy  women  don’t 
need  substantious  food,  Matildy  an’  me  had  a  good  square 
meal  in  de  kitchen,  an’  she  give  me  some  butter  an’  sugar 
an’  things  to  take  home  with  me.  Course  she  didn’t  say 
nothin’  ’bout  it  to  the  lady  what  she  wuks  fur.  I  kep’ 
turnin’  ovah  an’  ovah  in  my  min’  what  dat  woman  said 
when  I  was  settin’  in  the  cah  goin’  home  an’  made  up  my 
min’  dat  Mose  was  either  gwine  to  suppote  me  or  else 


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shet  his  mouf  up  on  the  question  of  women’s  votin’,  kase 
I  was  sick  of  the  superior  air  he  sumes  when  he  speaks 
'bout  women  bein’  the  weaker  sextes.  I  f'oun’  Mose  settin’ 
in  the  same  spot.  Mose  is  as  patient  as  a  ole  hen  ’bout 
settin’,  an’  a  honen’,  Mose  kin  hone  fur  mo’  things  in  a 
minute  dan  you  kin  git  in  a  yeah.  Sometimes  it’s  water- 
million  an’  sometimes  it’s  ‘possum  an’  sometimes  it’s 
chicken,  but  he  ain’t  nevah  honin’  fur  wuk.  “Mose,” 
says  I,  “I  don’  keer  nothin’  ’bout  votin’.”  “Course  you 
don’,”  says  Mose,  “tain’t  a  women’s  speer.”  “An  Mose,” 
says  I,  “I  ain’t  gwine  to  wuk  no  mo’.” 

“Aint  gwine  to  wuk,”  says  Mose.  “Why  how  we  gwine 
to  live?” 

“Live  ?  Why  you  gwine  to  wuk  an’  ’suppote  me.  Ain’t  I 
the  weaker  vessel  what  the  Lawd  made?” 

Liza,  dat  niggali  putty  nigh  turned  white,  he  was  so 
skeered.  “Mandv,  honey,”  says  Mose,  “you  know  what, 
I  neveh  has  passed  sech  a  misserble  day  in  my  life.  I’se 
had  de  misery  in  mail  side  an’  I  aint  had  no  appetite.” 

“Who  et  them  poke  chops  ?”  I  says,  lookin’  at  de  em’ty 
fryin’  pan  on  de  stove. 

“AVell  I  had  to  worry  somethin’  down,  chile,  fur  feali 
of  feelin’  wus.  I  tell  yo’,  Mandy,  ef  I  don’  feel  bettah, 
I’m  gwine  to  take  to  mall  bed  tomorrah.  I’m  a  sick  man, 
honey.” 

An’  t’want  no  foolin’  with  Mose,  Liza,  I  had  dat  niggah 
skeered  putty  night  into  fits.  You  nevah  seen  a  man  so 
subjugation  in  yo’  life. 

Why  he  was  lak  a  lamb,  an’  he  sho  nuff  staid  in  bed 
fo’  a  week.  When  Pete  Williams  come  ovali  one  day  he 
brung  up  the  subjec’  of  his  own  acco’d  in  mail  hearin’, 
the  subjec’  of  votin’: 

“Dar’s  goin’  to  be  a  big  change  in  dis  heah  country, 
Pete,  an’  I’m  gwine  to  lie’p  bring  it  about.  That’s  ’bout 


HOW  MANDY  GOT  THE  VOTE 


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women’s  votin’.  Don’t  the  constituency  of  the  United 
States  say  dat  all  men’s  is  free  an’  equal?  An’  dat  means 
de  women,  too,  of  course.  Yes  sail,  I  tell  yo’,  man,  dat 
de  women  has  to  have  a  voice  in  dis  heali  gov’munt,  an’ 
I’m  gwine  to  vote  dat  a  way  at  de  next  ’lections.” 

Lize,  I  neahly  burnt  de  shirt  I  was  ironin’,  fur  laffin’. 
I  sho  has  Mose’s  consent  to  vote  ef  I  wants  to,  chile. 
Wait  a  minute,  I  got  to  laugh  agin  when  I  thinks  of 
Mose’s  face. 


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Chapter  I.  General  Remarks. 

Chapter  II.  Grease-Paints,  their  origin,  components  and  use. 

Chapter  III.  The  Make-up  Box,  Grease-Paints,  Mirrors,  Face 
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Blue  for  the  Eyelids,  Brilliantine  for  the  Hair,  Nose  Putty,  Wig 
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Men,  Young,  Men  in  Ill  Health,  with  Red  Wigs,  Rococo  Make-up 
Hands,  Wrists,  Cheeks,  etc. 

Chapter  VII.  Adults,  Middle  Aged  and  Old  Men.  Ordinary  Type 
of  Manhood,  Lining  Colors,  Wrinkles,  Rouge,  Sickly  and  Healthy 
Old  Age,  Ruddy  Complexions. 

Chapter  VIII.  Comedy  and  Character  Make-ups.  Comedy  Ef 
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Chapter  X.  Other  Exposed  Parts  of  the  Human  Anatomy. 

Chapter  XI.  Wigs,  Beards,  Moustaches,  and  Eyebrows.  Choosing 
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Wigs,  Ladies’  Wigs,  Beards  on  Wire,  on  Gauze,  Crape  Hair,  Wool 
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